Dog,
Are you proposing that the average American Jose would be better off if he were taxed down to $15/hour and The People used some of that fodder to provide health-care, education and other field-leveling assistance?
-Joe
If illegals were brought into the tax-paying economy without giving them citizenship, would we care so much if they were here?
What if we made them pay taxes on every dime, and let legal citizens earn the first $25,000 tax free?
-Jose
What about just making them slaves?
They could do all the jobs like sewage workers and garbage collectors, and then after 5 years of working for accomodations and food, they would become a legal resident, and could then become a citizen if they chose that path.
Slaves?
Dude - I'm not proposing we create an industry to go round them up in their homeland and drag them here against their will... Slaves don't have the option to stay home.
I'm suggesting we come up with a 'bonus' for being a citizen... that way we can table this issue without rounding up and deporting a lot of people, some of whom are the parents of bona fide citizens and some of whom have been here for years.
-Joe